The first one appeared the year I turned 32. One dark wire, right on the point of my chin, where the day before there had been nothing. I pulled it out over the bathroom sink and thought no more about it. That was the beginning of twenty-two years I would quite like to have back.
By my forties there was not one hair, there were a handful, and they had friends. I want to be honest about how much of my life these little bastards took up, because I spent all of it pretending they did not exist. I kept tweezers in three places: the bathroom, my handbag, and the car, because the daylight there is the best for catching them. I have been married 27 years and I still hid the whole thing from my husband.
The morning it really landed was the day my little granddaughter, three at the time, reached up and asked me why I had a dog hair growing on my chin. I laughed. Then I went to the bathroom and cried about it. Over a hair. I felt like I was turning into a man some days.
Everything I tried, and everything it cost
You name it, I did it. I waxed, and both times my skin lifted and I looked like I had been beaten up for three days. I shaved, and the stubble was worse than the hair, back by day four. I bought a home IPL device and it made my face loads worse. I saved up for proper laser, over a thousand pounds across a year, and here is the kicker: a lot of my hairs had gone grey and white by then, and the laser could not even see them. It does not get the white ones. Nobody tells you that before you pay.
That is the bit that broke me, if I am honest. Not the hair. The feeling that the harder I worked at it, the worse it got. Like I was doing everything right and being punished for it.
The five minutes that changed everything
It was a practice nurse, at an appointment for something else. She saw me catch my own chin in the little mirror on her desk, the reflex, and she was kind about it. Then she told me the thing no one in twenty-two years had told me: the hairs were coming back worse because I kept pulling them out. Every pluck, the follicle treats it like an attack, floods the spot with blood, and rebuilds the hair thicker and darker. The ones I had fought the hardest were exactly the ones that had come back the worst.
She had me do one thing on the spot
Find the spot you have fought for years, she said. Then feel your cheek, somewhere you have never touched. The cheek was soft. The chin was like barbed wire. “That difference,” she said, “is the plucking, not the menopause.”
I have thought about that every day since.
What I do instead now
She pointed me toward working on the root instead of removing the hair, because removing only deals with the bit you can see. What I ended up using is a serum with an old Egyptian plant in it, Cyperus Rotundus, that works down at the follicle and coaxes it to grow back finer and lighter. Two things sold me: it works on the follicle and not the colour, so unlike the laser it does something for my grey and white ones, and it is water based, so it sinks in instead of sitting on top. I checked the hormone question first, and it is topical, it stays local, it does not go into your bloodstream. I will not pretend it was overnight, because it was not.
- Week 1: Nothing. I nearly gave up. Do not give up here.
- Week 2: I ran a finger under my chin and it was softer. Less like guitar strings.
- Week 4: Noticeably finer. The dark marks from years of plucking started fading.
- Two months on: from every single morning to barely once a week. I stopped keeping the tweezers in the car.
And it was not just me
“Diane sent me the link. Same story as her. Three weeks and my chin was smoother than it had been in years.”
“I had given up, honestly. This is the only thing that has ever touched my grey ones.”
DAYS
It comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee. After everything I had wasted, that was the only reason I was brave enough to try. If it is not working, you send it back.
If this sounded like your own chin, here is what I use
The small UK company that makes it explains exactly how it works. Have a read first. That is all I did.
See how the serum works ›Diane shared her story as partner content for Velura. Her name has been changed at her request. Individual results vary.